
Bottas crossed plans to team rival Hamilton
Valtteri Bottas took the first best starting position of his career after a mistake by Lewis Hamilton in Bahrjan. Hamilton, who is 0.023 seconds behind the Finn, will start the race from second place, followed by Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo. In the first part of the qualifiers, Pascal Wehrlein scored for the first time, returning to the Sauber race car after an injury in the championship race. The German set the first milestone with super-soft tires with a time of 1: 33.502. The milestone soon dropped to 1: 32.891 thanks to a lap taken by Kevin Magnussen, and after the first five minutes, the racers improved their time one by one. Ten minutes before the end, the first place was taken by Valtteri Bottas with soft tires, who drove the lap in a Mercedes in 1: 31.041, while a mistake in the fast lap was made by him